Saudi Hypocrisy – Could the Leopard Change Its Spots?

Date: 18 September 2017 - 21:21

News ID: ۴۴۳۴۲

By Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Could the regime in Riyadh, capital of the British created Wahhabi entity called Saudi Arabia – the prime source of funds and weapons for takfiri terrorists and the chief culprit in the ongoing destruction of the Arab world’s poorest country Yemen – be trusted?
The answer is a big "NO”, and has caught the attention of diplomats, religious scholars, political analysts, and lay persons (who diligently follow the news), all over the world, especially in official circles in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and other countries where the Saudi stratagem to bribe the media and distort information, doesn’t work.
The latest about-turn by Riyadh was a foreign ministerial statement denying the request it made to Tehran only a few days ago for opening a dialogue with the Ansarallah Movement of Yemen for a face-saving exit from the quagmire into which it has been trapped.
Following disclosure of the Saudi request to the Islamic Republic for finding a way out of Yemen, by Hussain Amir Abdollahian (Senior Adviser to Parliament Speaker), the media affairs director of the ministry of foreign affairs in Riyadh, Osama Ahmed Nuqali, claimed no such request was made.
Either Nuqali or his department are in the dark about the request to Tehran made through higher-ups, or those who had sent word to the Islamic Republic that war is not the solution to the crisis in Yemen, have chosen to backtrack in a bid to save the Saudi image, especially among those in the Muslim World who are recipient of Riyadh’s largesse (from the stolen oil-wealth of the deprived people of the eastern part of the Arabia).
At any rate, the Wahhabi minority regime can neither fool the citizens of the land it rules through misleading information, nor can it hoodwink the officials and religious leaders of certain regional countries with whom it has recently initiated dialogues and offered a few million dollars as reparations for the extensive damage done by its agents, the defeated Daesh takfiris.
As a matter of fact, President Bashar al-Assad has rejected outright the feelers for renewal of diplomatic ties by the oil-rich potentates who have destroyed Syria and massacred (and continue to kill) the Syrian people.
In Iraq, meanwhile, some of the elite who had recently met Saudi leaders and expressed conciliatory remarks towards the archenemies of their country, religion, and ideology, are well aware of the role Riyadh played in Saddam’s crimes against the Iraqi nation for decades, as well as the Machiavellian policy to trigger the collapse of Egypt’s first ever democratically elected government by doling out a fistful of dollars to Mohammad Morsi and then back-stabbing him through the Egyptian military and that too at a very cheap price.
It is obvious that no sane person will take the words of the Saudi leadership and officials at face value. The regime in Riyadh is dyed-in-the-wool pro-US and pro-Zionist and as the Islamic Republic very well knows it has no heartfelt sympathy for the welfare of the Ummah, especially Shi’a Muslims and our Sunni brethren who follow the Prophet’s Blessed Ahl al-Bayt – whether in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Hijaz, Najran, Yemen, Africa or anywhere else in the world.
Thus, in view of these facts, although Saudi Arabia is neck deep in trouble in Yemen and has no regret for the devastation of that country it has wrought by reducing the infrastructure to dust, killing and displacing the Yemeni people, and spreading epidemic diseases, it will continue its hypocrisy of putting out feelers to third parties for mediation and then releasing denials (in the vain hope of deceiving and destroying the popular Ansarallah Movement).
We in Iran believe that it is still not too late for Islamic fraternity to prevail and solutions could be worked out, but this requires real change of heart and revision of policies by the Wahhabis who have a history of desecrating Islamic sanctities and killing Hajj pilgrims.